The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-30
LOCAL NEWS.

The bridge on the Swedcsboro road,
over Oldman's creek, has been repaired at
a cost Of 500.
The hog-killing season will shortly be in
full swing. Thomas Green killed his first
for the season last week.
Rev. J. d. Davis, of Roxborough Bap-
fist Church, has accepted a call to the Bap-
tist church of Canton, this county.
According to the annual report of the
COMMISSIONS Of Pensions, just published,
there are 1924 pensioners in Salem county,
who annually receive $6013.50.
The Pilesgrove Prohibition Society will
meet this evening, 90th inst, in the w. G..
r. L. hall, at 7.30 o'clock. A full attend
ancc of the membership is requested.
There will be a heavy crop of nuts this
fall. Hickory trees are burdened with the
largest crop for five years, while there will
be an abundance of walnuts, c%hestnuts,
hazelnuts and butternuts.
Geo. II. Glanfield, late of Richmond,
Indiana, who now resides in our borough,
has purchased nine acres of land of Jos.
l.. Reeves, below the station at Clarks-
boro, and intends erecting a house thereon.
The New Jersey Agricultural Expert
ment Station has issued its September
Bulletin. 1t is devoted to analyses and
valuations of fertilizers, and states that
4S4 samples of the same have been received
since April LIST.
There are a large number of pigeon fan
ciers in South Jersey, and they are now ar
ranging to effect an organization. The OBJ
ject will be to give exhibitions at least
once a year and to encourage the breeding
of fancy pigeons.
The following clipping rom an adyer-
tisement in a Gloucester county paper is
significant "Perfcctly pure whiskeys for
private use or medical purposes, securely
packed with brand of any kind on box
sent to any address"
Dickinson & Lippincott have filled all
the cans they made this season 800, 00O-
and have been obliged to purchase another
100, 900, which arrived this week, and they
are now filling them with fair prospect of
getting away with the whole lot.
The new houses on Spring Garden St,
built his season by Jehu l.. Allen, nave
been thoroughly finished, outside and in
side. neatly painted and present a very
pretty appearance. They are offered at
private sale. See advertisement in another
column.
Certain parties at Daretown want a
creamery there and offer to give a suitable
man the necessary amount of land If he
will build Il butter factory there. Dare
town is in the midst of a rich grazing dis
trict and possesses every convenience for the
successful operation of that industry If
properly managed.
The long spell of hot summer weather
and the constantly increasing demand for
ice has about exhausted the supply of the
East Lake Company, and they are as yet
undecided whether to buy of the camden
firms or elsewhere in order to keep their
trade going. Next winter the company
will lay in a double supply.
1t has been ascertained by an observing
person that floeks of poultry which have
guinea fowls among them are never inter-
fered with by chicken thieves. The guinea
is always on the alert, and the least dis
~turbance will cause il to make a very large
outcry %well-known to farmers. This fowl
should be found on every farm and in every
hen roost.
Miss A. M. AIchambault gives notice in
J another column of the opening OF her
classes in art, at her studio in the W. G..
r. U. room, in Turner's building, next
Wednesday. Those who intend joining
these classes or desire any Information in
regard to them should present themselves
at the studio between the hours of and 4
O'Clock, p. Nj.
The L. S. Coast and Geodetlc engineers,
who have been operating in South Jersey
the past season, have ceased work for the
year. At the foot of the fluted column on
the south side of the entrance to the
County Clerks Office in Salem, the en-
gineers have placed a cross, with the
figures ~1l.G1-which Indicate the distance
above the mean sea level. The point used
by the Typographical engineers to locate
the latitude and longitude in this county
is the spirc of st. Johns Episcopal church,
in Salem. The latitude of this spire is
S9.3i.25.i2; longitude, 75.9i.3f.9s.